Odom To Virginia?

In a word, no.
The whole rumor that Dave Odom had been offered the Virginia job came from one careless article in the Washington Post. A few other papers mentioned that Odom was being targeted, but no others said that he’d gotten the offer. So, either the Post had scooped the hometown Charlottesville paper as well as all of those in Richmond, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Tidewater and South Carolina or they were wrong.
I was all prepared to write about that when Odom released his statement saying what I thought.
It ain’t true. It’s a good thing too, because it would have been a pretty poor hire. Believe me, the Virginia fans have been lighting up the message board at TheSabre.com railing against the hire. Even the SC fans were perplexed about why UVA would hire him.
Update: Gregg Doyel says Odom is still in the running. (Thanks Yoni!)
Oh, and by the way, it appears that I was wrong about the Dean Smith hire. Sorry about that.
ps. What’s funny about the whole Dean Smith thing is that I wasn’t really trying to fool anyone. I just wanted to write something somewhat funny and make up some fake Dean Smith quotes, which is always fun. I never figured anyone would think it was real. Well, they did. Both on my message board and on SportsFilter. It also got linked up at the DBR and Inside Carolina, although those folks didn’t seem to fall for it. That article even got a mention on USA Today’s website!


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